Quotes about Graphic Design

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. Votes: 4

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. Votes: 4

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant. Votes: 4

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. Votes: 4

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. Votes: 3

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. Votes: 3

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Votes: 3

Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads Votes: 3

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. Votes: 2

If you do it right, it will last forever. Votes: 2

If you can design one thing, you can design everything. Votes: 2

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe. Votes: 2

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Votes: 2

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. Votes: 2

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Votes: 2

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design. Votes: 2

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. Votes: 2

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world. Votes: 2

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. Votes: 2

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. Votes: 2

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration. Votes: 2

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. Votes: 2

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. Votes: 2

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. Votes: 2

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Votes: 2

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. Votes: 2

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Votes: 2

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that. Votes: 2

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer. Votes: 2

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through. Votes: 2

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. Votes: 2

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic. Votes: 2

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. Votes: 2

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me. Votes: 2

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody. Votes: 2

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. Votes: 2

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor. Votes: 2

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. Votes: 2

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face. Votes: 2

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job. Votes: 2

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. Votes: 2

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't like it much, then began doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers. Votes: 2

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance. Votes: 2

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. Votes: 2

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ? Votes: 2

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. Votes: 2

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. Votes: 2

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful. Votes: 2

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.' Votes: 2

The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. Votes: 2

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram. Votes: 1

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas. Votes: 1

Grid systems in graphic design Votes: 0

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. Votes: 0

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Votes: 0

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design. Votes: 0

I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design. Votes: 0

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication. Votes: 0

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design. Votes: 0

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility. Votes: 0

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. Votes: 0

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern. Votes: 0

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth. Votes: 0

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism. Votes: 0

I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring. Votes: 0